Oct 2006

With the new found freedom realized with the car Nick and I have been all over the Sydney area. Today we drove up and stopped at all of the Northern beaches from Manly to Palm. Manly is the most crowded and most touristy, but we saw a womens international surfing contest in which Nick "apparently" knew some of the girls... or had at least heard of them. Unfortunately along with the realization on freedom came the realization of petrol prices of this crazy country and the not to good millage that the 1986 beast achieves. Tonight we thought about driving 13 blocks to return a movie downtown and quickly voted against it. I was going to post some great photos of the beaches but the files are too big, I've already uploaded 20% of my monthly allowance so I'm gonna start taking smaller pictures for this site while keepin some big ones for coming home on the big screen.
Tomorrow we leave with a friend of Nick's named Pete who's gonna help us fix up the car. Internet cafes are way more available so keep checking, I promise to do a way better time than in Scotland.

this is me on my first day in front of the Harbor Bridge and Opera House from the Domain

NIck and I in the the sweet Apt

well... today i bought my first car!! A 1986 Ford Fairmont with 246,540 miles on it. As co-owner of the car I haven't thought of a name yet but i'll update you on that. Also you can often times upload pictures over here so i will be doing that soon. Tonight is my last night in Sydney. Last night Nick and I went out to the local "bar" seen which is way more like the American "clubs" and it was pretty weird. I got a hard time from the bouncers for wearing Trainers (tennis shoes) he told me that the bar I was about to enter had a dress code that didn't include trainers and only let us in after a bit. Pretty lame if you ask me. All the guys inside had on leather and gator skin shoes which the bouncer not so politely recommended I purchase at an average price of about A$ 200 a pair. Since that is my budget for about 10 days i not so politely told him to F*** off. After all was said and done i prefer the pubs, or maybe even just the beach as a nightlife location.
Nick met some "doctor" in South Africa with a place in Avoca Beach which is about 50 miles north of Sydney where we're planning on crashing for a few days and getting the car ready for the trip. We'll be installing 20 inch plasma screen in the back and probably refitting the interior with leather and oak paneling. Along with the 24 inch rims and 5 sub woofer system its a pretty pimpen overall ride, enough I know to make X-ibit jealous.
Overall plan is get to Cairns which is about as far from Sydney as Maine is from Florida so it'll be a long trip. For the first time in my life i'll be heading North and be getting closer to the equator. Anyways look forward to more picture soon I promise and here is one the the pre-pimped ride. Love everyone and miss you.

hey everyone,
so its been a good week back in the states and now I'm back at large and in Sydney Australia. Pretty freakin awesome place. My old camp counselor's brother has a sick apartment in the rocks on the 16th floor. Free accommodation in a expensive apartment is pretty cool. The only down side is I have to share it with this smelly long haired American bum whose been sleezin around Indonesia and South Africa for the past 2 months. Other than that its pretty great. We're lookin to buy a car and we found a nice 1986 Toyota Hiasim, a pretty pimp ride if you know what I'm saying. Anyways i think Ill be able to upload pictures over here so look forward to that. Miss everyone.